EPISODE · May 24, 2012 · 25 MIN
An Interview with Nevin Young
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Nevin Young, Professor of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota, St Paul and Author of the 2012 Annual Review of Plant Biology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his article Genome-Enabled Insights into Legume Biology, which he co-wrote with Arvind Bharti, of the National Center for Genome Resources. He tells us how the Whole Genome Duplication event that occurred 58 million years ago as a consequence of same environmental stress that may have caused the extinction of dinosaurs resulted in nodulation and symbiosis in Medicago truncatula and other papilionoids. This piece of information could be significant in the quest for natural fertilizers.
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Nevin Young, Professor of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota, St Paul and Author of the 2012 Annual Review of Plant Biology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his article Genome-Enabled Insights into Legume Biology, which he co-wrote with Arvind Bharti, of the National Center for Genome Resources. He tells us how the Whole Genome Duplication event that occurred 58 million years ago as a consequence of same environmental stress that may have caused the extinction of dinosaurs resulted in nodulation and symbiosis in Medicago truncatula and other papilionoids. This piece of information could be significant in the quest for natural fertilizers.
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